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by C4stor 1y ago
Their home page first sentence states : "The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking." So I don't know if the concept is explained in more details elsewhere, but I think it's
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by C4stor 1y ago
Probably adoption of the "long now" foundation style ?
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by C4stor 1y ago
The "fair use" part takes a lot of place in this article. It talks a lot about what happens if you use more tokens than what you're allowed, but curiously doesn't pip a word about what happens if you use less - for examp
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by C4stor 2y ago
It's a good idea, but from the docs it looks like the high level abstractions are wrong. If my data pipeline is "take this table, filter it, output it", I really don't want to use a "csv file input" or a "
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by C4stor 2y ago
All of this seems unnecessary, and easily replaced in the provided benchmark by : i2 = np.ascontiguousarray(pg.surfarray.pixels3d(isurf)) Which does the 100x speedup too and is a "safe" way to adjust memory access to numpy strides
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by C4stor 3y ago
I wonder why are the example videos this specific clip compilation format. It feels to me that to navigate that, you essentially have to index 500 10-seconds videos, and that looks a lot easier than retrieving information that is in an actu
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by C4stor 3y ago
Bricklink has been acquired by Lego 4 years ago, I don't think that's a secret at all !
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by C4stor 3y ago
The planet has never been, is not and probably won't be in any near future in peril. Humanity is. Humans disappearing is the concern of ecology. The planet will adapt just fine with or without us, and species disappearing will be repla
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by C4stor 4y ago
Here's a conclusion that you can also take from the same article : "In the UK, ages 1-59 year olds are dying at almost eight time the rate if they don't have any baby tooth left and don't absurdly love dinosaurs". T
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by C4stor 4y ago
Since a bag ("sac") has no exit hole ("cul"), and so a "cul-de-sac" is a (I guess 2nd degree ?) way of saying "way with no exit".
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by C4stor 4y ago
Is focusing on github stars specially meaningful ? Is there any functional difference for the repo between having 6k stars (as of today) and 54k ? I don't think so honestly. Github stars are just not something useful to monitor closel
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by C4stor 5y ago
If think the joke is that author himself don't side with the (mostly pointless) debate about pizza and pineapple, so whatever your own opinion, you can see his point.
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by C4stor 5y ago
The sheer difference in placement and style between the "now now" button and the "allow suggestions" button is all one need to know to be certain it's a bad idea to allow that. You don't need dark patterns to o
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by C4stor 5y ago
But then someone at the bank has to decide between Visa and Mastercard. And this persons surely thinks "ok, the conditions are roughly the same, what is going to make sure none of my clients even bother to ask why we chose this".
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by C4stor 5y ago
In the context of the presented html, the first line is <html lang="en" class="no-js"> . So, "no-js" does exist.
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by C4stor 5y ago
The blog is called "a collection of unlimited pedantry", so at least some pedantry is to be expected !
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by C4stor 5y ago
You can split with a business case in mind. Maybe if you're an e-business, you'll split everything happening on your website by client id, but still want events belonging to a single client to be received in order, for practicalit
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by C4stor 5y ago
>Your new technology claims to be superior to existing lithium-ion To be fair, it doesn't. The article is explicit that it's only 20% as mass efficient s lithium-ion battery. On the other hand, it's also true that the vehi
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by C4stor 5y ago
Well, my initial point wasn't that bandwidth is _bad_, it isn't, but rather that the fact that ISPs got everyone, apparently including lawmakers to focus on it isn't good for our actual usages, where latency and its stability
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by C4stor 5y ago
How often does your cloud storage provider allows you to send 1Gbps to them ? For the ones I use (dropbox, mega, google drive), the answer is never where I live. At best, it will be 10% of that, and usually less.
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by C4stor 5y ago
A 4K video is 16Mbps, it seems reasonable that a household would want to have 3 of that running, or at least will want that in the near future. With the common background traffic already present on connections, it doesn't seem quite en
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by C4stor 5y ago
But none of this already fills the capacity. Websites are served on slow as hell aws virtual web servers, delivering their content byte by byte or so it seems. Content is already not filling the capacity 99% of the time apparently : 4K vide
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by C4stor 5y ago
Well : 1. A 4K video, if I estimate it at 56 GB per hour, need roughly 16MBps. Even if 3 people are using that, that's 50Mbps needed. 2. Downloading a video game is usually capped by the server providing the download and not by your fi
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by C4stor 5y ago
I wonder where is the breakpoint in throughput where it become useless to have more. While ATT stance of 50/10 is certainly not enough for common usages, 100/20 starts to be in the range of my small household peak usage and I prob
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by C4stor 5y ago
Does mainstream cinema production portray anyone as a _normal person_ ? It doesn't stop to academics. Every single profession has its tropes, and it's quite uncommon in my opinion that there's much deviation on it. Police off
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by C4stor 6y ago
> What makes you think this comment is doing anything except providing positive feedback? It doesn't address any of the points mentioned in the article, and in fact, doesn't address the general theme of the article. There is no
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by C4stor 6y ago
No it doesn't imply that. Your article is crystal clear, and makes a valid point based on your personal experience. So, thanks for writing it, and don't bother too much for internet points !
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by C4stor 6y ago
What happened to the HN rule of "interpret everything with the most positive interpretation possible", when this is the top voted comment ? It seems pretty obvious that the author doesn't intend to coerce anyone into doing an
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by C4stor 6y ago
In a world where the sounds of sports on TV is not even the true sound of what's happening in the stadium because it's boring, I highly doubt they would pay a single penny for what would probably be a highly disappointing wind-lik
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by C4stor 6y ago
TL;DR : Start taking notes about what you read if you want to actually remember a bit of it. Here you go.

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